Question about blogging platforms

[norwich36]

I've been playing around with the idea of starting a blog that was more professionally (rather than fannishly) oriented, and I've been investigating different blogging platforms. Does anyone have strong opinions on the merits of blogger.com v. wordpress.com? (I'm definitely not doing it on LJ or Vox, because I want it to be completely removed from my fannish identity).

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

When I was just googling around to see what was out there, I found these links helpful:

http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2008/05/choosing_a_blogging.html
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/choosing-a-blog-platform/
http://www.blogher.com/choosing-blogging-platform

I don't think I actually want ads, except in the unlikely scenario that I become She-ra TopBlogger. I think Typepad may also let you have ads (?) but you have to pay to use the site.

[rsadelle]

I love the one with the flowchart! That last "How do you feel about Google? Love/Hate" could be "Do you want ads? Yes/No" and get you to the same places, which is kind of where I am. Theoretically writing should be a source of income for me, and I'm willing to have Google ads on my professional blog to that end - and I don't want to pay to do it (either with Typepad or with hosting it myself). I also checked out the export options - ideally I'll become rich enough off of writing that I can afford to move it to its own hosted server.

I've been thinking about what I read regularly, and the blogs I read that aren't either LJs or hosted on their own servers are mostly on Blogger/Blogspot.